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Obama before airstrike in Libya: 'We will go after ISIS wherever it appears'

Feb 19, 2016

President Obama talked about the situation in Libya on Feb. 17 at the U.S.-Asean Leaders Summit in California. “With respect to Libya,” he said, “I have been clear from the outset that we will go after ISIS wherever it appears, the same way that we went after al Qaida wherever they appeared.”

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